Grammar Websites

Sites that deal with grammar

These are the best sites we have found on the Web.

• Grammar and Style Notes From Jack Lynch in the English department at Rutgers University, here is a miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage.
• Guide to Grammar and Writing An award-winning site covering a wide variety of grammar and writing topics, from clauses and commas to coherence and transitions. Also has interactive grammar quizzes, Q&A by email, a bibliography of printed sources on English style and usage, and Web links to online resources for writers. Created and maintained by Charles Darling, Professor of English/Humanities, at Capital Community Technical College in Hartford, Connecticut.
• We Vanquish Your Anguish...: Complete online grammar help to answer all your English grammar questions. Web Address: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jbair/
• Garbl's Writing Resources Online - An annotated directory of web sites focusing on English grammar, style, usage, plain language, active writing, words, reference sources, online writing experts, word play and books on writing.
• Good Grammar, Good Style - Features over 100 pages of articles and answers to frequently asked questions about grammar, mechanics, and style. This page also contains extensive links to other grammar and writing pages and an annotated bibliography.
• Grammar & Style Notes -  alphabetical listing of grammatical topics and explanations
• Guide to Grammar and Style - By Jack Lynch.
• Guide to Grammar and Writing - From Prof. Charles Darling.
• Guide to Grammar and Writing - Contains several digital handouts on grammar and English usage. From basic problems in subject-verb agreement and the use of articles to exercises in parallel structures and help with argumentative essays, and a way to submit questions about grammar and writing.
• Jonathan Revusky's Interactive English Grammar Pages - Explanations and interactive grammar exercises. Runs with java.
• On-Line English Grammar - alphabetical listing of topics and explanations by Anthony Hughes, St. John's Wood School of English, London England
• Study Web - Grammar & Composition
• That's Right Words - Articles about grammar information and hints.
• Grammar Guides
• Grammar Guides In Print From Amazon.com, discover 100 popular, best-selling and critically acclaimed books focusing on grammar.
• Big Dog's Grammar Scott Foll, G&S Services, an editing, language instruction and resume writing firm in Amarillo, Texas. A bare bones guide to grammar for beginning students and as a quick review; includes a guide to MLA citation and interactive online exercises.
• The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation lecturer and consultant Jane Straus, Mill Valley, California. Covers the parts of speech with definitions, rules, examples and exercises, and provides guidance on dangling modifiers, subject-verb agreement and words like who, whom, which and that.
• An Elementary Grammar The English Institute, Strasbourg, France. Brief explanations of nouns, verbs and other parts of speech with examples of proper usage.
• Grammar for Journalists Kellee Weinhold, School of Journalism, University of Oregon. Instruction in basic grammar, spelling and punctuation according to the Associated Press Stylebook, complete with exercises and quizzes.
• Language Skills for Journalists R. Thomas Berner, professor of journalism, Pennsylvania State University Organized in seven chapters, including writing, sentences and paragraphs, functional grammar, conventional grammar, modification and meaning.
• Loft Grammar and Style Pages Writing Center Plus, North Seattle Community College, Washington Explanations and examples on writing sentences, spelling and using punctuation, adjectives, prepositions and verbs.
• Modern English Grammar Daniel Kies, Department of English, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois. "Hypertextbook" covering English clauses, phrases, word structure, grammatical style, punctuation and even the Ebonics debate.
• Parts of Speech Purdue University Online Writing Lab, West Lafayette, Indiana Covers the categories into which words are put, according to how they function in sentences -- nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, gerunds, infinitives and prepositions.
• Science Fiction English Grammar Cynthia Joyce Clay, author and owner of Looking Glass Books This site is devoted to the nuts and bolts of English grammar, but most of the examples and exercises have a unique science fiction or fantasy slant.
• GVB's Concise Guide to Grammar Greg Van Belle, Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, Washington. In three parts: misused words, punctuation and common mistakes.
• Elementary Grammar
• Grammar Help
• Grammar Slammer The help file that goes beyond a grammar checker.
• Darling's Guide to Grammar and Writing
• An Elementary Grammar Guide--excellent resource.
• English Teachers' Website
• Garbl's Writing Resources Online features wonderful grammar help sites and much more.
• Grammar and Style Notes by Jack Lynch is a very detailed grammar and style reference book on the Net.
• Grammar Grabbers Home Pageis hilarious! You'll find categories such as "Noooo! Don't use THAT Word!" and "'Grammar' Moses." Fun aside, it's packed full of helpful information.
• Grammar Lady
• Grammar Now!
• Grammar Queen is an online grammar resource for writers, students, and professionals. Ask your grammar question online and get an answer from an expert!
• HyperGrammar.
• The NASA Langley Research Center site provides an unbelievable resource of grammar helps and tips.
• Guide to Grammar and Writing from the Capital Community-Technical College
• StudyWEB Grammar & Composition features punctuation, spelling, composition, style, usage, and more.
• Guide to Grammar and Style A miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage. Topics are organized alphabetically.
• The American Heritage® Book of English Usage - A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English
• Common Errors in English - avoid titters of amusement at the way you write or speak.
• Dr. NAD's Prig Page. Test standard English grammar, usage, etc. - tests of grammar, usage, spelling, punctuation, and style
• English 126 HyperTextBook - modern English Grammar
• Gallery of ''Misused'' Quotation Marks - They're quotation marks, and they turn up in the strangest of places.
• The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation - Jane Straus' on-line reference guide and workbook.
• Grammar Bytes! - An interactive grammar review with definitions and exercises.
• Grammar Clinic Frame - an on-line grammar clinic from England.
• Grammar Slammer--Online Demo and Complete English Grammar Resource - the help file that goes beyond a grammar checker
• Guide to Grammar and Writing - from Prof. Charles Darling.
• Fowler, H. W. 1908. The King's English. - Project Bartleby's (Columbia University) on-line edition.
• Home for Abused Apostrophes - a haven for little punctuation marks which have been cruelly misused by greengrocers and other uncaring notice-writers.
• The LinguaCenter Grammar Safari - broaden your language horizons and explore the jungle out in the real world.
• Guide to Grammar and Style - by Jack Lynch
• Pop-up Grammar - online English grammar instruction site with interactive quizzes
• Punctuation Made Simple - discussion of several of the most useful punctuation marks
• That's Right Words articles - grammars information and hints
• THE SLOT: A Spot for Copy Editors - a guide to the many things that can go wrong in print.
• Strunk, William. 1918. The Elements of Style. - Project Bartleby does it again with another of the classics.
• Usage Experts Change Their Minds, Too - Anne H. Soukhanov, lexicographer extraordinaire, shows that abstract usage rules are not set in concrete.
• WebGrammar - Tips and resources.
• Wired Style - principles of English usage in the Digital Age.
• World Wide Words - explores some of the byways of the English language.

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